Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:41:23 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

Alexander [the Great] did get pretty close to India! In fact he occupied
the northern part of India which has recently become [Pakistan].

Also Afghanistan. Everywhere he set up a garrison that later would become
a town, he decided to name the place after himself: “Alexandria”. Of
course, that got varied a bit according to the local linguistic
conventions: hence “Kandahar” and “Iskandaria”, among others.

But there are other evidences against that as well. One is, the heart of
Indian math has always been its southern and central regions (Black
people), not its north (Whites).

Dravidians versus Aryans. I think the Indus Valley civilization dates from
before the Aryans got there, so it had to be Dravidian. I remember one
researcher claiming to have found correspondences between parts of the
(as-yet-undeciphered) writing and the Tamil language.

That kind of thing doesn’t go down well with the Aryans.

But a much more recent trend is clearer to see, and the gist of that is
that Church in Europe didn't understand the Greeks' works and either
burned them or hid them ...

Yup, back then, the Christian idea of “learning” was endlessly copying
out intricately-illuminated Bibles ...